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  <text>Here's some things I found that help speedup and make VS 2005 easier to use.

&lt;strong&gt;Close the Toolbox tab&lt;/strong&gt; - Even with just the tab closed, VS2005 still seems to use resources to keep it up to date. By removing it from your workspace, the project pane and other windows appear much more responsive.

&lt;strong&gt;Turn Off Animated Windows&lt;/strong&gt; - When VS2005 gets sluggish, expanding and hiding tabs can appear horrendously slow as the screen repaints. Turning this option off helped a little bit. Uncheck the box found under Tools â€¦ Options â€¦ Environment â€¦ General â€¦ Animate Environment

&lt;strong&gt;Turn off the VS2005 File Navigator&lt;/strong&gt; - With resharper installed, you donâ€™t need VS2005 to update the list of methods and fields at the top of the file (CTRL-F12 does this nicely). Iâ€™ve hardly even noticed the small panel that sits at the top of the file youâ€™re editing but apparently it takes quite a lot of effort for VS2005 to keep it up to date. Disable the Navigation Bar checkbox under Tools â€¦ Options â€¦ Text Editor â€¦ All Languages â€¦ Display.

&lt;strong&gt;Disable Startup Page&lt;/strong&gt; - Wondered why VS2005 seemed sluggish on start up? Itâ€™s probably because itâ€™s trying to download something from the Internet by default. Turn off the main startup page and the â€œliveâ€? content by unchecking the box found under Tools â€¦ Options â€¦ General â€¦ â€œDownload content everyâ€?. Iâ€™d also change the â€œAt Startupâ€? option to â€œShow Empty Environmentâ€?.

&lt;strong&gt;Install &lt;a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/gmilano/archive/2006/02/27/439208.aspx"&gt;Cool Commands&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - When you use Track Active Item in the Explorer pane, collapsing projects to run tests of various kinds can be hard. Cool Commands has some helpful things like Collapse All Projects so you donâ€™t have to do it yourself when running tests.

&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dotnet2themax.com/ShowContent.aspx?Type=freeware&amp;ID=ded748ac-f681-4976-9623-71f5f3e3ea8f"&gt;Visual Studio 2005 Spell Checker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - need I say more?
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommentreflower.sourceforge.net%2F&amp;ei=OFhgRoLTN6iUwQKbgvXgBg&amp;usg=AFQjCNGlUnrFhWhxLZ33bJpgBT1aSCKyBQ&amp;sig2=dWiJM4gbKhmTw6AwsLqLUg"&gt;
Comment Reflower&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - Comment Reflower is a Plugin for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 to reflow the text in comments in source files to have even word wrapping. It does more than simply just wrapping all text in comment blocks. It attempts to recognise and wrap appropriately.

&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc/"&gt;GhostDoc &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;code&gt;
&amp;lt;summary&amp;gt;
GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML
documentation comments for C#. Either by using existing documentation inherited
from base classes or implemented interfaces, or by deducing comments from
name and type of e.g. methods, properties or parameters.
&amp;lt;/summary&amp;gt;
&lt;/code&gt;
- Mike</text>
  <last_update>2007-10-04T00:52:34.1490806Z</last_update>
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      <date>2007-06-19T15:06:23</date>
      <author>Adam</author>
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      <text>Original source for the first part:
http://www.123aspx.com/redir.aspx?res=36121</text>
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